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Book SynopsisIn light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the contracting of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and intercultural landscapes.
Trade ReviewThis valuable and wide-ranging collection of essays will benefit both practitioners and scholars of religious communication. Practitioners will discover that the truths they seek, even those which are eternal and unchanging, must be communicated in infinitely variable physical and mental landscapes. Scholars will discover that religions are not simply manifestations of deeper social processes but generate supreme realities that profoundly structure believers' communication. Such understandings are vital in fostering the interfaith dialogues that are so needed in our world today. -- Mark Ward Sr., University of Houston–Victoria
Adrienne Hacker Daniels has given readers an innovative collection of essays that may help reshape the way we conceptualize religious communication as a discipline of study. Freshly written with scholarly flair, the contributions to this edited volume point a way forward in our discussions about faith and faiths in a global perspective. Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith is a timely gift to the academy. -- Daniel S. Brown Jr., Grove City College
In Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith, Daniels offers a timely, necessary, and invaluable contribution to the ongoing scholarly conversation about communication and religion. Featuring established and emerging scholars, this collection offers a fresh look at enduring and contemporary questions resting at the intersection of faith, communicative practices, and the global human community’s search for meaning. -- Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University
This remarkable edited collection covers a brilliant spectrum of contexts for the role of faith in public discourse, and demonstrates the crucial need for more of the same kind of research. Each chapter seizes the reader with a sense of relevance and currency. I highly recommend this collection, in whole or in part, for anyone studying the intersection of faith and communication. -- J. Matthew Melton, Lee University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Communication, Landscape, and Faith Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels Part One: The Philosophical Landscape Chapter 1: From Here to Eternity: The Scope of Misreading Plato's Religion Mark A. E. Williams Chapter 2: The Equivocal Tao of “Nature”: I.A. Richards, C. S. Lewis, and the Heresy of Coalescence Steven L. Reagles Part Two: The “Built” Landscape Chapter 3: Building a House of Worship One (Agnostic) Platform at a Time Jeffrey Bogaczyk Chapter 4: The Tourist Gaze and the Church: Megachurch as Tourist Site Annalee R. Ward Chapter 5: Sanctuar(ies) for Sanctuary: A Rhetorical Analysis of Berlin’s The House of One Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels Part Three: The Performative Landscape Chapter 6: Salvation on the Wicked Stage: Charles Grandison Finney, Aimee Semple McPherson, and the Legacy of Faith Performance in American Revivals Bradley W. Griffin Chapter 7: Pope Francis’s Semiotic-Ethotic Conversion: Visual Humility, Metonymy, and Religious Mimesis Christopher J. Oldenburg Chapter 8: Identification and Unity: Easter Celebrations in the Holy Land Barbara S. Spies Chapter 9: The Public Work of Faith in Senegal: The Y’en a Marre Movement, the Marabouts, and Interfaith Cohesion Devin Bryson Part Four: The Political Landscape Chapter 10: Virtues as a Horizon for Intercultural Understanding: The Roles of Faith and Nationality L. Ripley Smith Chapter 11: Rhetorical Tapestry: Mandela, Messianism, and Faith as a Source of Rhetorical Invention Peter A. Verkruyse Chapter 12: Human Price Tags and the Politics of Representation in Sex Trafficking: Christian Women’s Missionary Discourse of the 21st Century Kirsten L. Isgro Chapter 13: All Who Do Not Lay Their Obligations on the Same Altar: Christian Privilege, Religious Diversity, and American Political Discourse Jacob Stutzman Part Five: The Intercultural Landscape Chapter 14: “This is What God Wills”: Observing Global Perspectives on the Impact of Fatalism in Health Communication Kallia O. Wright Chapter 15: “Moving Forward”: The Rhetoric of Social Intervention and the Presbyterian Church in America’s Cultural Outreach Mark A. Gring Chapter 16: Bringing Together and Setting Apart: Christianity’s Role in the Formation of Deaf Cultural Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean Elizabeth S. Parks
